Wait and See - Lion Rock, 2021
"Time passes, and life goes away. Light moves along with time, tracing the tracks it has walked, and collecting memories of days and nights. I preserve moments from the flowing river of time. The completion of a work means the beginning of its own journey. As for me, its creator, I will keep making my works until my life fades into eternity."- Carol Lee Mei Kuen
Born in Hong Kong, Carol Lee Mei Kuen started her studies of Chinese painting in 1983. Since 2005, Lee has employed time as both the material and means of her art making. Harnessing the changes in light and its reaction with paper, she has made time and space two-dimensional and visible, presenting the relationship between time and history/memories in pictorial form. Lee’s works cross the boundaries of various traditional media—photography, printmaking, painting—and her works have gradually become her own language for art expression, which she names “time writing” or “time drawing”.
Her works are collected by the Philippe Charriol Foundation, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation of Germany, Lviv Glass Museum in Ukraine, M+ Museum, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre and other private collectors.